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March 17th 2006

Published: March 22nd 2006

So this is the longest time you've all waited for a blog. What can I do? Apple picking became my life for almost an entire month. You would think that this blog will blow you away, but I highly doubt it. Apple picking is not that entertaining, the only salvation for all of you...I've been getting up at 6:30 most of the past three weeks, so I once again feel the pain you all feel everyday. Wel... Read Full Entry

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Still need to be picked...

I'm out...they'll have to pick these without me.

Making a fire...

Someone's a pyromaniac?

Basket of goodness...

The food before it goes in the ground. Pork, Chicken, Cabbage, Sqaush, Pumkin, Potatoes, Kumara (sweet potatoes) and more...

Basket of goodness...in the ground

So I know it's not a Kitchen Aid, but it cooks all the same.

Moving along in the Hangi

Thats Ed, our Maori buddy putting burlap over the food to keep the dirt away.

We know how to dig too...

Some of the boys covering the hole back up...

It's covered

This is the hardest meal I've ever earned

Goon Parking here!!!

Even the goon has a good view...

Kiwis

This is what kiwi's look like on the vine.

View from our tents

Living in the kiwi rows was very peaceful.

More kiwis

Did I mention I love fruit

Hops

Thats right the stuff they us to make beer...

Black Currants

It's a berry...good for jelly.

The killers in their cage

So these are Carls's pig hunting dogs. Gorgeous dogs that looked like athletes and loved to chase apples during smoko (coffee break).

Is that pig radar?

Pig hunting is a high tech activity...those dogs are so fast you need radio receivers to track where they are.

Dinner anyone?

Yep that's a dead pig

Yummy...pig guts

Now Carl would be the first to tell you he was a real hick.

Bryan is officially gone...

I'm pleased to introduce hunter Bryan...

Here's Murray...

He's one crazy Scot

Apple induced craziness

The day after we finished picking, the boys headed to the beach.

22nd March 2006

unca bob
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work
no more work stories. am enjoying following the trip. hear you wracked up the tractor. nz is beautiful

22nd March 2006

Pamela
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Hi Alan :)
great pics! wow - i want to stay on the kiwi farm, it look sooo pretty! i cant believe how big the apple bins are - i think i changed my mind about going into the apple picking business, and the color selection - oh man - i would have gone apple crazy too. have fun - miss you - love you - Pamela :)

22nd March 2006

Betty
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Career ladder!
Those apples are "appealing" (is that a pun)? Does this mean your career as a migrant farm worker is over? Great pictures and details, glad to see your blog is back. Love you

23rd March 2006

TravelGoon
Brian Moskowitz

That picture of Carl holding the antenna is a riot

23rd March 2006

JOSH SKYER
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DOUBLE TRUE
YO--i haven checked you blog in a while...i could not read all the entrys (ADD) but i skimmed and checked the pics looks awsome...glad to see your safe...and having fun...here is good...just on the hustle trying to make a mill out of 15 grand....you have been gone a while...by the time you get home i will have probably mooved up a belt in Brazillian ju-jitsu.. aswell as Capoiera ...crazy....any way im at work we just built a second office in the back and painted it pink...yesss...have fun. josh

25th March 2006

AlanZ
Alan Zapolsky

First comment from me...
Hey all, just thought I'd drop a comment on my own blog. Sitting here in a town of 295 people in the middle of the west coast of the south island. Spectacular scenery all around me, i almost can't wait to write the next blog, just wait till you see those pictures. Have been to 2 national parks in the last week, and by the end of next week it'll be another 2. Thanks for all the comments and well wishes from home, it makes me real happy to see people reading and enjoying the blog. I'll talk to you all real soon...later, alan

27th March 2006

murray
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Gigity gigity
hey al this is a cool website. i enjoyed the part about the colour selection, i had to chuckle! the nailing sucks too!! not quite as badly. iv decided that all NZ contractors are jus out to screw everyone over. the hostel is a great laugh tho, we had a crazy party on saturday these danish guys brought out a beer bong, it was his birthday and he got a pass around, everyone donated beer and as he was skullin it someone added a jar of gerkin juice!! ha ha it was brilliant! take care man, murray

31st March 2006

swissmiss cecile
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hello alanZ
hey alan! its great to see all the pictures you took and to know that you and your buddies are allright... me, i was in thailand celebrating the traditional thai wedding of my closed friend roland! with a lot of lovely-spicy-back to the roots-thai food and whisky on the rock ;-) and afterwards i went to a gorgeous-secret-small island to relax, i lived like a princess, i tell you! nowdays i'm back in sydney... a bit sad that i haven't had more time for asia... i just LOVE IT, but anyway i'll show you all the pictures when you're visiting me in zuerich with the two brians... jeeeepie! drop me a line if you've got the time one day... take care and kisses, your travelmate cecile

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